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  1. That would be wonderful if it could be released. I would buy it in a heartbeat. I think that in some ways Bloomfield was the best rock guitarist ever.
  2. The good Commander's first string of albums, culminating with "Live From Deep In the Heart of Texas", were very strong, in my opinion. Tight, swinging playing, with some good soloists, and a fun time vibe without becoming too corny. They took the music seriously but did not take themselves too seriously.
  3. Very true. The live shows did not have the depth of detail that was possible in the studio, but they were very hot and powerful live. They blew the roof off of the joint.
  4. I love that Bloomfield album. He plays several different blues styles and shows how good he could be. It is too bad that he did not reach that peak very often in his later years. However, this album is very satisfying.
  5. Actually, The Fool is the last, very long song on the first QMS album. If it was a clue, it was not meant to be!
  6. It's the Humbug label. My daughter and her friends would text Humbug as "HMBG" (if they even knew that the word humbug exists).
  7. Yes, it was a fun one to put together.
  8. I have never heard that version, but it sounds awful. My Japanese Mini-LP CD does not have any horn section at all.
  9. I am a little bit surprised that there has been no previous forum discussion of the "Roland Kirk Live With....." series of CD sets on the HMBG label. I have been unable to find any previous discussion using the Search funtion. I apologize in advance if these releases have been the previous topic of comprehensive discussions. Here are some of my favorites in the series. I have been going through a period of listening to them a great deal recently. Volume 2: Roland Kirk Live With The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Fillmore East, New York, June 19, 1968 Purple Haze; Red House (with Kirk); Voodoo Chile (with Kirk); Blues for Alice (with Kirk); Serenade for a Cuckoo (with Kirk); May This Be Love; Day Tripper; Foxy Lady Jimi Hendrix--Guitar, vocal; Noel Redding--Bass, vocal; Mitch Mitchell--drums; Roland Kirk--Tenor saxophone, manzello, strich, flute (2,3,4 only); Steve Winwood--organ (3 only). The sound is a bit muddy on this one, and Kirk is buried far back in the mix at times, but there are moments of genuine excitement, especially when Hendrix and Kirk get into some genuine interplay on "Blues For Alice." Volume 6: Roland Kirk Live with the Mothers of Invention, Garrick Theater, New York, May 6, 1966 Plastic People; Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder; Call Any Vegetable; Trouble Every Day; Orange County Lumber Truck (with Kirk); King Kong (with Kirk); Dog Breath Variations (with Kirk). Ray Collins--Vocals; Frank Zappa--Guitar and Vocals; Don Preston--Piano, Organ; Ian Underwood--Piano, Clarinet, Alto Saxophone; Bunk Gardner-Tenor Saxophone; James "Motorhead" Sherwood--Baritone Saxophone; Roy Estrada--Bass; Jimmy Carl Black--Drums; Kirk--Tenor Saxophone, Manzello, Strich, Flute, Clarinet, Nose Flute (5,6,7 only) The sound is surprisingly good on this set. While the three tracks with Kirk tend to go on and on, there are undeniable moments of inspiration here. Kirk's presence seems to lift the Mothers who could improvise to new, higher levels of performance, especially Underwood and Gardner. Volume 7: Roland Kirk Live With Quicksilver Messenger Service, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, August 14, 1966 Pride of Man; Codeine; Gold and Silver (with Kirk); The Fool (with Kirk); Hip Chops (with Kirk); Smokestack Lightning John Cipollina-Guitar, vocals; Gary Duncan--guitar, vocals; David Freiberg--Bass, vocals; Greg Elmore-drums; Kirk--Tenor Saxophone, Manzello, Strich, Flute, Clarinet, Siren This was the real surprise of the series to me. Gary Duncan's "Gold and Silver" is very close to "Take Five", so it was a natural vehicle for jazz improvisation. I had not heard Duncan and Cipollina play with so much jazz feeling before. Kirk is obviously enjoying himself here, as you can tell from his shouts and frequent use of the siren near the end of "The Fool"--which had been a highlight of the first QMS album. Volume 10: Roland Kirk Live With Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Whiskey a Go Go, Los Angeles, April 18, 1967 Electricity; Abba Zaba; Dropout Boogie (with Kirk); Blues With Roland Kirk (with Kirk). Captain Beefheart--Harmonica, vocals; Alex St. Clair Snouffer--Guitar; Ry Cooder--Guitar; Jerry Handley--Bass; John French--Drums; Kirk--Tenor Saxophone, Manzello, Strich, Siren. This volume is interesting because it shows how much of a cohesive blues/rock band Beefheart had at the time, while Ry Cooder was with him. It seems a pity that he did not continue more in this direction. In some ways this is the most exciting volume in the entire series. When Kirk and Beefheart trade fours on tenor sax and harmonica on "Blues With Roland Kirk", the sparks really fly. I must confess that I do not enjoy all of the other volumes in this series as much as the ones I have mentioned here. For example, Volume 4 strikes me as a rather unfocused jam with Garcia, Kaukonen, Cassidy and Buddy Miles. You would think that Volume 5, with Butterfield and Bloomfield, would work well, but it really doesn't, not for me, anyway.
  10. The early Fugs albums featured Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel, who were also the Holy Modal Rounders leaders. That's an interesting idea, that the Fugs' early albums are a type of Americana roots music.
  11. That last one looks like Spike Jones.
  12. Big Al, After reading your comments about selling "Sweetnighter" in the Black Market/Album of the Week thread..... Are you sure that you want to sell this Live in Tokyo album?
  13. I really like Levon Helm's "Dirt Farmer" and "Electric Dirt", from recent years. This is music not very much like The Band, and really good to listen to. Also, I like Tony Rice's albums, all of them in the past ten years, really. His albums with Norman Blake are really good, in my opinion. I also like Jorma Kaukonen's last few albums, in the acoustic folk/country vein. Who could have guessed in 1968 that he would end up there. Super Chikan is my favorite current blues artist. I think his songwriting is as strong as his singing and guitar playing. I find him really fun to listen to. Dr. John seems to be getting better and more interesting to me. I have enjoyed his last few albums more than his earlier stuff.
  14. Thanks for resurrecting this old thread, Big Al, which I would not have found otherwise. I enjoy JSngry's comments early on in the thread, and agree with them. I was there and found things to be just as he reports, regarding this album.
  15. Frank Zappa and a 20 piece band (with full big band reed and brass sections) playing "The Grand Wazoo" live in Boston, on the 2007 release "Wazoo". This is the most fun song to listen to on this often rather challenging release.
  16. I saw the group Chase in the auditorium at Wausau West High School, Wausau, Wisconsin, in 1972. I remember that the concert started with the first song on their first album, "Open Up Wide". On the record it begins with a solo by trumpeter Bill Chase. At the concert I was shocked that his opening solo went on longer, and contained improvisation, that was not on the album. I remember thinking, "hey! this isn't on the record!" I also remember that the guitarist, first name Angel, played a fast, distorted rock guitar solo near the end of the concert, which ended with him wildly throwing his guitar backwards over his head. It landed hard behind him on the stage. This generated an explosion of applause and screaming from the crowd.
  17. He was a great, enjoyable player. It's not that the Down Beat Hall of Fame has any credibility, but it occurs to me that if Mr. Ellis had played saxophone or trumpet he would almost automatically be enshrined this year by either the Critics or the Readers. There is a real bias in the Down Beat Hall of Fame against guitarists, bassists and drummers. Many of the great players on each instrument are not members, while some lesser lights on instruments that one blows into, are members.
  18. Al, I replied that the BFT was a lot of fun and that I could not identify a single song or artist. That is still where I am at. I have enjoyed your BFT a lot.
  19. Hot Ptah

    mike mandel...

    So that is why he was squinting so much during the Eleventh House concert I saw in 1975 (they opened for Frank Zappa). He did not wear dark glasses onstage as some blind musicians do.
  20. Me too. I have enjoyed Stomp Off, Let's Go immensely.
  21. I have found that the market for used CDs is not all that favorable. Maybe it is the economy. maybe it is downloading taking over from owning physical product. You have to almost give them away to get anyone to buy them, on any online forum. What seems common to me is that a seller will list their CDs at $7, then drop the price several times until they are at about $4, just to get anyone to buy them. If they are out of print, it does not seem to matter all that much. People still will not pay much for them. Maybe if you had a pristine 78 rpm record from 1928 you could charge a higher price, but just to say that your 1992 issued CD is now out of print--it doesn't seem to matter much in terms of what people will pay, from what I can tell. I see that you are in Rome. Now if you had the Horo LPs in good condition, that would be another story. You could charge more for Horos.
  22. Following our PMs, I will take a download, please. I predict that I will have no idea about the songs or artists, but that I will very much enjoy the music.
  23. That's only from October through April. From May until late September, you can only rarely participate in those activities.
  24. Please see my PM.
  25. I grew up in north central Wisconsin and now live in Kansas City. I recommend Door County, Wisconsin, which is very scenic, and set up extremely well for visitors. The natural water, sand beaches, and forest will be very different, and very appealing, to someone from Kansas City. It will be very different, and much, much better, than the Lake of the Ozarks. Door County has the hotels, restaurants, and visitor activities all set up, from years of hosting tourists. But it is not too "touristy". http://www.doorcounty.com http://www.doorcounty.com/outdoor/beaches.aspx On the way, you could stop in Green Bay and see Lambeau Field and the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame museum. I am not kidding. It is a first class museum, better than many national museums on many topics. As a museum on the early history of the NFL, it is hard to beat. http://www.lambeaufield.com/hall_of_fame/visit_the_hall_of_fame/ Northern Wisconsin has many beautiful lakes and forests, but it would be somewhat hit and miss regarding the accomodations and activities. Some of the lakes and forests are just that, with no real set up for visitors. You would have to research it, to just drive into the forest and lake country of Northern Wisconsin. Door County has the beauty and the established facilities and activities for visitors. If you are going to Milwaukee while Summerfest is going on, that would be worth going to. Summerfest is a massive outdoor music festival, with all genres of music represented, including jazz. Otherwise Milwaukee has about the same level of attractions as Kansas City, different attractions to be sure, but it is not really a tourist destination, as Kansas City is not. But if you could combine Summerfest with Milwaukee's attractions, that would be worth a visit. Racine is not a place I would visit on a vacation.
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